July 31, 2024--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Facebook and Instagram parent Meta Platforms Incorporated (NASDAQ:META) (Menlo Park, California) came a step closer to its goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2030 with the commissioning of an Arizona solar farm with which the company has a power purchase agreement (PPA) in place. EDP Renewables North America (Houston, Texas) (EDPR), the North American renewables arm of Energias de Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal), recently completed the Brittlebush solar farm near Coolidge in south-central Arizona. All of the plant's output will go toward a new Meta data center in Mesa, about 40 miles away on the southeastern outskirts of Phoenix.

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